Pete Hegseth: What Trump told him when he asked him to be secretary of defense
During his remarks at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told the crowd what President Donald Trump told him when he asked him to take the job.
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